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British Teenager Arrested After Xbox And PlayStation hacks

A teenager from Liverpool has been arrested in a joint British and FBI operation.

10 years ago

British Hacker Linked To US Military Twitter Hack

Junaid Hussain, who had been previously jailed for hacking, identified as founder of group that attacked US military Twitter account

10 years ago

Lizard Squad Hacker Arrested In London

A man linked to the Lizard Squad has been arrested amid reports of a second arrest in Finland

10 years ago

Hacking Gang Charged With £62m Cyber Theft

Crime doesn't pay? Four hackers charged with stealing more than $100m of US army and Xbox technology

10 years ago

Google Reveals Gmail User ID, After Child Abuse Discovery

Google reports a Gmail user to the police after discovering illegal images in his email

10 years ago

Police Arrest Seven For eBay StubHub Fraud

Two arrests made in London as police swoop on international gang that defrauded eBay's online ticketing service

10 years ago

Julian Assange Fails To Overturn Swedish Arrest Warrant

Wikileaks founder to remain inside embassy after failure of legal attempt to overturn Swedish arrest warrant

10 years ago

US Makes Arrest In Epic Point Of Sale Hack Investigation

Credit card data thief is arrested more than three years after his original indictment

10 years ago

Man Arrested As Underground Site Silk Road Shut Down By FBI

Man accused of being secretive website founder Dread Pirate Roberts arrested

11 years ago

Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Arrest In US

A man accused of defrauding investors has been arrested for operating a Ponzi scheme involving bitcoins

11 years ago

Lulzsec Leader Arrested Down Under

Australian Federal Police have reportedly arrested the leader of the global hacking group Lulzsec

12 years ago

Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Business Espionage

Police press on with Operation Tuleta

12 years ago

UPDATED: Has John McAfee Been Apprehended? Nope, His ‘Double’ Was

Rumours emerge McAfee was arrested crossing the border, but doubts remain about his whereabouts

12 years ago

Cyber Crook Pleads Guilty To £3m Card Skimming Scam

Criminal caught red handed carrying out a sophisticated campaign

12 years ago

Cambodia To Deport Pirate Bay Co-Founder Gottfrid Svartholm

Gottfrid Svartholm is to be deported but he might not be going back to Sweden, where he faces jail

12 years ago

Second Alleged LulzSec Sony Hacker Arrested

The Sony security saga rolls on with another arrest

12 years ago

UK Authorities Threaten Ecuador Embassy Raid For Assange

Assange is facing arrest, but Ecuador says it will respond if the UK intervenes in an asylum attempt

12 years ago

Ecuador President Mulls Julian Assange Asylum

The President of Ecuador has taken to Twitter to deny reports he granted Julian Assange asylum

12 years ago

LulzSec Suspect Ryan Cleary Charged In US

Ryan Cleary is charged in the US, meaning he now faces the threat of prison in two countries

12 years ago

Two Possible TeaMp0isoN Members Arrested

The Metropolitan Police denies the hack, TeaMp0isoN denies the arrests. So nothing happened?

13 years ago

Six Anonymous Suspects Arrested In Dominican Republic

Four alleged Anonymous members are sent to prison with no charges filed

13 years ago

LulzSec Claims Hack Of Military Dating Website

LulzSec has bounced back from the recent arrests and hacked a dating website for single people in the military

13 years ago

Did The Met Nab Voice Of LulzSec In Shetlands Raid?

LulzSec suspect Topiary was arrested in the Shetland Isles but the word on the web is he was framed

13 years ago

Authorities Clamp Down On Internet Fraud Scams

Police in America and Romania have swooped on gangs operating Internet fraud schemes

13 years ago

Scareware Gangs Busted By FBI Global Operation

The FBI seized over 40 computers and arrested two individuals to break up two separate scareware scams

13 years ago

Spanish Police Arrest Anonymous Operation Hackers

Spanish authorities claim capture of three members of the Anonymous denial-of-service hacker group

13 years ago

Assange Slams ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Extradiction Decision

Julian Assange has gone on the offensive after a British Judge approved his extradition to Sweden

14 years ago

Police Collar Five Suspects Over Wikileaks Hacks

Police have arrested five people suspected of being involved in the Anonymous DDoS attacks

14 years ago

More Arrests But Zeus Trojan Rules In Online Bank Fraud

The arrests keep coming in connection with the cyber-crime ring that used the Zeus Trojan to steal millions from bank…

14 years ago

UK Link As US Arrests 60 People For Zeus Bank Heist

More than 60 people have been charged in the US as part of an international crime syndicate that used the…

14 years ago